1. 使虛弱;使衰弱 If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
e.g. Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus. 昨天拉塞爾因腸胃病毒感染身體不適,由斯圖爾特暫時(shí)接手。
debilitating ...a debilitating illness. 導致身體虛弱的疾病debilitated Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously. 偶爾會(huì )有病人過(guò)于虛弱,必須通過(guò)靜脈注射進(jìn)食。
2. 削弱(組織、社團或政府)的力量 To debilitate an organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker.
e.g. ...their efforts to debilitate the political will of the Western alliance. 他們試圖削弱西方聯(lián)盟的政治決心的努力